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Charlotte Pegram reviews YOU at Vault Festival Our actions impact the lives of others, and a tangled web of lives are shown to be affected by the adoption of one child in ‘YOU’. From the young girl who falls pregnant at 15 and her embarrassed parents, to the […]

Charlotte Pegram reviews Elsa at Vault Festival Elsa is a typical London girl; she has dreams but she also has a ‘money job’. Her degree doesn’t seem to get her anywhere so it’s latte art and table service at a rather nice cafe until things pick up. If […]

Abigail Bryant reviews The Drill at Battersea Arts Centre ‘If it’s not your thing, you are free to leave at any point.’ You’d be forgiven for feeling slightly dubious about a play that begins on this ominous premise, but multimedia theatre-makers Breach’s The Drill is certainly not for […]

Abigail Bryant reviews Eggsistentialism at Arcola Theatre At a time when the very notions of motherhood and reproduction are rich with fluid debate, Joanne Ryan’s Eggsistentialism is a poignant, engaging and illuminative exploration of gender and fertility. Narrated autobiographically, 35-year-old Joanne invites us to delve into her innermost […]

Abigail Bryant reviews Tiny Dynamite at Old Red Lion Theatre Bringing Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite to the stage for the first time in 15 years, Time Productions have injected an ethereal and immersive ambiance to a beautifully complex play that deals with chance, regret, grief and friendship among other […]

Doodle The Musical Waterloo East Theatre 12th January 2018 Simon Ward reviews Doodle The Musical at the Waterloo East Theatre One of the abiding mysteries to our soon-to-be former friends in Europe is Britain’s never ending fascination with the Second World War. And certainly TV sitcoms in the […]

Simon Ward reviews Good Girl at The Old Red Lion, Islington. On a stage bare but for a raised gold-painted circular platform, Naomi Sheldon gingerly dips her toe and then plunges headlong into an exhilarating, exhausting hour of confessional, squirmingly honest, often hilarious talk. This piece was a […]

Linda Anderson reviews Bad Roads at the Royal Court Part of the International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court, Bad Roads provides a series of savage snapshots of the war in Ukraine. Told from a female perspective, we see how women adapt to find love, avoid abuse and […]

Simon Ward reviews No Place Like Hope at The Old Red Lion, Islington Even by the standards of theatre-rooms-above-pubs, the Old Red Lion is a particularly intimate space. If you sit at the front you are almost part of the scenery, or intruding on someone’s privacy. Especially […]